Progress and identity in the plays of W.B. Yeats, 1892-1907 / / Barbara A. Suess

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790801603321
• Autore: Suess Barbara Ann.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-45407-8; 0-415-96654-X; 0-203-95753-9; 1-135-45400-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 pages)
• Collana: Studies in major literary authors ; ; 25
• Disciplina: 822/.8
• Soggetti: Verse drama, English - History and criticism; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Progress in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ch. 1. "[F]ull of personified averages" : progress in the Victorian and Edwardian eras -- ch. 2. Literatures of progress -- ch. 3. Progress as material gain : the bourgeois peasant as invented tradition in The countess Cathleen, Cathleen ni Houlihan, and The land of heart's desire -- ch. 4. Recovering the feminized other : psychological androgyny in The king's threshold, On Baile's strand, and Deirdre -- ch. 5. "[N]ice little playwrights, making pretty little plays" : Yeats, Irish identity, and the critical response.